Penryn u15s 25, Perranporth 20

Penryn welcomed Perranporth to the Memorial Ground in the knowledge that the visitors are the only team that they have failed to beat this season.

Perranporth have been the top team in Cornwall at this age group for a couple of years, but Borough were as determined and fired up as they have ever been.

Perranporth kicked off and there was an immediate advantage to the home side. Ball didn't go ten, scrum down in the middle.

Penryn won it with ease and spent the next five minutes pounding Perranporth's line. The forwards were all over the visitors and the backs made ground with every passage of play. The Perranporth defence was efficient and calm - showing exactly why they are rated so highly.

It worked so well that after the initial onslaught, they managed to turn it around and break wide to score to opening try of the match - unconverted.

Borough came flooding back with exceptional interplay between forwards and backs. There were some great training ground moves from the backs - wonderfully supported by the forwards and within four minutes of going behind, Josh Nicholl broke through and scored the first Penryn try - unconverted. Perranporth had a couple of line breaks of their own with some searing pace in the backs but couldn't get through the home side's defence.

Try saving tackles and bodies on the line showed just how determined the hosts were out there today. Back into the Perranporth half drove the Borough forwards and the backs broke the gain line time and time again.

The visitors tackled valiantly - again and again - there was no stopping the Penryn team. Every breakdown was one by the hosts, if the visitors tackled hard, the hosts tackled harder.

The continued interplay between forwards and backs ground down Perranporth spirits and Jackson Cardnell made them pay with a powerful crash through the defence as he scored near the posts - converted by Sam Hammersley. The victors did not give up and within two minutes of going behind, they had taken advantage of the home side briefly turning off. They had a lineout five metres from the Penryn line and scored a well worked try - unconverted. For the last 15 minutes of the first half, the hosts were dominant.

The scrum won set pieces against the head and had it not been for the Perranporth defence and centres making some decent breaks, this match could have been all over bar the shouting. Penryn continued to batter and pressurise the visitors and it was no surprise when Zane Goodwin took the ball out wide and left the despairing Perranporth defence behind to score the home side's third - Unconverted. Half time score 17-10.

The second half was much the same as the first apart from Perranporth not having two props so scrums went uncontested. Both sides played with fourteen players - six in the scrum and an extra back. This did suit the visitors a little more than the hosts but it did not stop Penryn piling on the pressure. Perranporth did have a good ten minute spell early in the half where they spent a lot of time in Penryn territory.

The home side defended efficiently and made some great breaks out of trouble. As the half went on, Penryn inexorably drove the visitors further and further back. The pack continued to win loose ball and and the backs broke the gain line. One backs move created a gap that Josh Nicholl took advantage of as he expertly finished off with his second try of the day - unconverted. Perranporth did have some joy with their fastest player who did score again soon after - unconverted. Penryn didn't let go and spent more quality time in the visitors' third.

A penalty in front of the posts with just minutes to go was duly slotted home by Sam Hammersley and the Perranporth consolation try in the dying minutes couldn't dent the Borough joy when the final whistle went.

The under-15s finished with a record of played 16, won 11, lost 5, scoring 522 points in the process. They now look forward to a trip to Italy next month.

Penryn: A Bawden, A Bray, B Machnik, H Callaghan, J Cardnell, T Derrante, J Frost, Z Goodwin, S Hammersley, O Hill, O Kingsbury, C Levick (capt), O Burt, S Price, J Valentine, J Nicoll, J Tanswell, J Truen, H Truen, D Price, F McGougan.